Item #Cat352 Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.. Second-wave Feminism – LGBTQ+ History – New York City – Film, Authors.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.
[Second-wave Feminism – LGBTQ+ History – New York City – Film] Various Authors

Archive of 1960s–1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women’s Film, Performance, and Health.

United States: 1960s–1980s. Approximately 170 pieces; see below for full inventory. Conditions vary; generally very good to excellent. Item #Cat352

An archive of material belonging to Rosemary Gaffney (?–2024). Gaffney lived in the New York City area with her partner, Joyce Vinson; the two were involved in a number of feminist activist organizations including the New York Radical Feminists (NYRF), the National Organization for Women (NOW-NYC), and the Women’s Liberation Center. Gaffney was a performer, involved in filmmaking with Women Make Movies (WMM), and an employee at Mother Courage for the entire duration that the restaurant was in business, from 1972 to 1977. She also collected feminist literature and material from across the country.

The collection spans several decades and includes numerous publications, event flyers, and behind-the-scenes notes from feminist groups. It is highlighted by collections of material related to WMM—particularly the 1976 short Healthcaring: From Our End of the Speculum—women’s theater and performance, and women’s health. The film and performing arts material records the efforts women put in to carve out a space for their own work in creative fields that were then disproportionately composed of men, while the women’s health material documents some of the early organizing around issues that arose from the similar underrepresentation of women and their issues in healthcare. Interestingly, the two topics intersect in the archive, particularly in Healthcaring but also in projects like the “Mental Prisoners Liberation” screening at the Kitchen, which suggests a connection to the psychiatric survivors movement. These materials are of interest to researchers not just of feminist history but also the history of women in film and the arts; working, both in performance and healthcare; and in patient activism.

The following description begins with these materials before turning to the remainder of the collection: Other Original and Unpublished Material; NYRF; Women’s Strike for Equality; NOW; The Women’s Liberation Center; Mother Courage Restaurant; Other Events and Organizations; and Other Publications.

Women Make Movies (WMM)


Founded in 1969 by Ariel Dougherty, Sheila Paige, and Dolores Bargowski, Women Make Movies is a non-profit feminist film organization based in New York City. It started as a workshop to teach local women to make films, and expanded to include screenings and film distribution. Today, WMM distributes films from nearly thirty countries, and its films have played at Sundance and Cannes. Though generally not found in OCLC, some items offered here may appear in WMM collections at the MoMA and the Academy Film Archive, or in the Ariel Dougherty collection at Harvard University. The present collection includes a significant amount of material on Denise Bostrom and Jane Warrenbrand’s 1976 short film Healthcaring: From Our End of the Speculum, which is listed in its own section. Items presented in alphabetical order.
• Blank WMM letterhead, 8 ½ x 11 inches.
• Copy of a letter from the IRS to WMM. The letter, which addresses the group as “Gentlemen”, approves its 501(c)(3) status. 8 ½ x 11 inch photocopy. Very good minus.
• Grant application materials [two pieces]. November 1974 materials sent to Youthgrants for creating the film The Women’s Movement: The Past Seven Years, by Carol Clement, Ariel Dougherty, and Sheila Paige. Five pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. With large packet of grant-writing material.
• Manuscript notes about a film relating to a women’s bank in Bethesda.
• MENTAL « PRISONERS » LIBERATION / VIDEOTAPES at the kitchen. A flyer for a screening at the avant-garde Chelsea performance space The Kitchen, co-sponsored by The Kitchen and WMM. Titles include He Lives Alone (dir. Dixie Beckham, N.d.); Chelsea Infants of the Martial Arts (dir. Jane Warrenbrand, N.d.); and Career Women (dir. Lisa Methfessel, N.d.). The flyer reads in part, “The Mental ‘Patient’ Movement / Radical Alternatives / Social Rejection, Stigmas” and “Violence and Psychiatry / The Myth of ‘Mental Illness’ / Poetry and Music”, indicating a connection with the psychiatric survivors movement. Sheet measuring 11 x 18 inches, folded in half. Some damage to edges. Very good.
• MOVIES / international ♀’s day / SATURDAY MARCH 8TH 1975 / after the march. A flyer for two screenings at Washington Square Methodist Church, with proceeds going to the International Women’s Day Coalition. Titles include “Fear & Domestic Tranquility” and “The Emerging Woman”. Double-sided 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet. Excellent.
• Photograph of the WMM c. 1970s (photocopy).
• “the problem” and “a solution”. Promotional material for the films Superwoman (dir. Anne Sandys), Men’s Film (no director), The Women’s Martial Arts Center Teaches (no director), and The Betrayed Daughter (dir. Isabel Castellano, Carmen Colon, and Toni Santiago). Two sheets, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• WMM Newsletter. Fourteen-page newsletter, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Excellent.
• “women make movies is women making history” [1973?]. A flyer advertising WMM and several of its films, including Domestic Tranquility (dir. Harriet Kriegel, 1973); Fear (dir. Jean Shaw, 1973); and The Women’s Happy Tine Commune (dir. Sheila Paige, 1972). Sheet measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¾ inches, folded in half. Small fold to one corner, else Near Fine.
Feminist film conference materials. Several pieces concern a 1975 event, the Conference of Feminist Film & Video Organizations in Womanhattan, which does not appear to have been documented.
• “An Ongoing Manifesto”. Single 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet. Very good.
• “Conference of Feminist Film & Video Organizations in Womanhattan”. Eleven-page stapled conference information packet, 8 x ½ x 11 inches. Excellent.
• “Policy on Freelance Work”, written at the conference. Single 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet. Very good.

Healthcaring: From Our End of the Speculum. A documentary short film directed by Denise Bostrom and Jane Warrenbrand, the film discusses women’s experiences as patients with primarily male practitioners, especially in obstetrics and gynecology.
• Copy of a letter to Lucille Goodman of Brooklyn (1974). A letter asking for financial support for Healthcaring, with a short proposal. Two pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• Grant application materials from Healthcaring and an untitled film on street harassment (possibly A Film on Street Harassment, dir. Sheila Paige, 1977). These date to early in Healthcaring’s production, when it had the earlier title . Also includes some information about Alice Heyman of the First Women’s Bank of New York and a similar project in Bethesda, likely for another film.
• Healthcaring From Our End of the Speculum [May 1976; two items]:
• Invitation to the film’s premiere at the Henry Street Settlement House. 5 ½ x 7 ½ inches. Fine.
• With a pamphlet about the film. Four pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Near Fine.
• “I actually socked my doctor!”. A flyer advertising the film, with a manuscript note from “Ariel”, possibly Ariel Dougherty. Single-sided 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet. Folded, else excellent.
• MOVIES / international ♀’s day / SATURDAY MARCH 8TH 1975 / after the march [five copies with notes on the verso]. Five sheets total, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good:

  1. Four copies with typed notes on the verso concerning maternal and fetal health and women’s healthcare.

  2. One copy with a letter to Dr. Peter Rogatz at BCBS of Greater New York, asking for financial support for the film, with a draft copy with editorial marks.


• One page of miscellaneous manuscript notes.
• “Summary of Content”. A summary of the film with manuscript editorial marks. Ten pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Good.
• Typed notes on women’s health and Healthcaring. With manuscript editorial marks, likely written by Bostrom or Warrenbrand as press for the film, with an unknown editor. Nineteen pages total. Very good.

Women in the Arts


• A Bash! / Libations, Comestibles, & Revels. Fundraising flyer for the Creative Women’s Collective, a NYC-based group of artist activists. Not in OCLC. Single 7 ½ x 11 ½ inch mailer folded as sent, with some staining verso; excellent.
• LUCILLE FIELD / SOPRANO / CARNEGIE RECITAL HALL (1977). Field was a vocalist and music professor whose work emphasized women composers. She established Brooklyn College’s Women’s Studies department, co-founded the International Alliance of Women in Music, and created the North Fork Women for Women Fund, a health advocacy and medical financial assistance organization for lesbians. Not in OCLC. Trifold pamphlet on 7 x 10 inch paper. Stained; very good.
• LUCILLE FIELD / SOPRANO / Songs by Women Composers. Program for a recital at Carnegie Hall with Lucille Field and Myrna Nachman. Eight pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• Montana Blake Productions / invites you to be a guest at a / party to celebrate the release of / “Verse-ability,” the new LP by / HELEN HOOKE. Postcard invitation, likely from 1988. Besides appearances on Sesame Street, Hooke is best known as a member of The Deadly Nightshade, one of the first all-women bands to sign with a major label (Phantom/RCA). Not in OCLC. 4 ¼ x 6 inch postcard. Very good.
• On Saturday evening, April 4, 1981, please join us at a party in celebration and support of … / the Paris Project / a production of Sura Theater. The Paris Project was an experimental theater group active between 1980 and 1987. Its first production, The Paris Project, was based on the life of the lesbian feminist writer and expat Natalie Clifford Barney. For a discussion of the group’s process and projects, see Deborah Sherman, “The Paris Project and the Art of Lesbian Relationships,” Heresies Magazine 6, no. 2 (Issue #22, 1987): 11–13. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded; else excellent.
• Rosemary Gaffney / Still All Singing All Talking. Flyer for an event at the Women’s Coffeehouse in New York City, a lesbian-owned Greenwich Village gathering spot for the community. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Slight curling at edges; very good plus.
• THE WOMEN’S EXPERIMENTAL THEATER / invites you to attend / a participatory workshop / WOMEN IN RELATION TO FOOD (1981). The Women’s Experimental Theater (or WET) was active between 1976 and 1986 in New York City. Starting with the idea that women have their own distinctive experiences, the group performed, held workshops, and experimented with women-focused methods of acting. See Karen Malpede, Women in Theater: Compassion and Hope (Limelight Editions, 1983), 235–244. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded, else excellent.

Women’s Health


The women’s health movement grew out of second-wave feminist and women’s rights organizing in the 1960s and 1970s, especially around the issue of abortion. Its aims also included better education about birth control and sexuality, fighting nonconsensual sterilization of women, and promoting research on diseases such as breast and ovarian cancer. See Judy Norsigian, “Our Bodies Ourselves and the Women’s Health Movement in the United States: Some Reflections,” Am J Public Health 109, no. 6 (June 2019), 844–846.
• “ABORTION” (no author, December 1972) . An apparently unpublished narrative of the author’s abortion, before the procedure was legalized. With manuscript editorial marks. Five stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Excellent.
• “IUD” (no author, December 1972). An apparently unpublished narrative of the author’s experience with IUD removal. With manuscript editorial marks. Four stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Excellent.
• SEXUALITY QUESTIONNAIRE (Shere Hite, NOW NYC Chapter, 1975). A short questionnaire on women’s sexuality by feminist sexologist and sex educator Shere Hite. Two holdings, one at Northwestern University and a second at Barnard College. Four pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded with damage to edges; very good.
• WEST SIDE WOMEN’S SELF HELP CLINIC COLLECTIVE (The Women’s Liberation Center, NYC, N.d.). An undated sheet soliciting responses to “prepare a pamphlet which will evaluate Obstetrics and Gynecology services available on the West Side.” Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Good.
• WOMEN’S HEALTH SERVICE (Women’s Health Service Clinic, Colorado Springs, N.d.). The Women’s Health Service Clinic in Colorado Springs operated between 1975 and 1984. It was the first to be fully staffed by women. The pamphlet offers pregnancy- and abortion-related services, childcare, therapy, sexuality clinics, and community outreach. See Addison Price, “‘Working for Our Lives:’ How One Colorado Women’s Clinic Redefined Healthcare Amid Conservative Backlash,” Nursing Clio, November 12, 2025, https://nursingclio.org/2025/11/12/working-for-our-lives-how-one-colorado-womens-clinic-redefined-healthcare-amid-conservative-backlash/. Not in OCLC. Trifold pamphlet on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper. Fine.

Other Original and Unpublished Material


Writing
• “An Experiment on Problem-Solving Behavior” by Rosemary Gaffney. Behavioral research. Five stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches.
• Four sets of manuscript notes for an unspecified newsletter:

  1. By Lynne Shapiro for the Lucy Stone Brigade, some thoughts about the NYRF and critiques of the YSA-SWP, which has been crossed out in favor of “pseudo-feminists”. Three pages, 8 x 12 inches.

  2. By an unknown author celebrating the completion of an organization’s structural definition. Single sheet, 8 ½ x 13 inches.

  3. By an unknown author on consciousness-raising. Five pages, 5 x 8 inches.

  4. “Saturday Night – Sunday Morning” by an unknown author about her experience at the Women’s National Abortion Conference. “I felt the frustration of my sisters [...] I was angered when I heard Kip Dawson call the women to join the ‘gay contingent’ [...] I found myself arguing with YSA’ers, screaming, at mass meetings, and running to caucuses and voting meetings.” Two pages, 8 ½ x 13 inches.


• “In seeking the female flesh, a man / Buys it proper when he can [...]”. A draft of an untitled poem. Typed with manuscript editorial marks from at least two different editors. Single sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches.
• Miscellaneous notes: five pages.
“Violence in the Women’s Movement or The Killing of Sister Grace” by Rosemary Gaffney. An apparently unpublished description of Ti-Grace Atkinson getting heckled by women while speaking at a panel. Two copies: one with editorial marks (seven pages) and one without (thirteen pages). 8 ½ x 11 inches.
Correspondence
• Undated letter from Florence Rush to Rosemary Gaffney, asking Gaffney to kill out a waiver to give her testimony “to Helene Silverstein for my forthcoming book on the sexual molestation of children”.
Art and Photographs
• Collaged birthday card, 7 ½ x 7 ½ inches, Fine.
• “Look Mista … just shut ya big mouth, big mouth, mouth / big mouth, big mouth, big big mouth, big mouth, mouth [...]”. Marker illustration on rice paper, 8 x 9 ½ inches. Fine.
• Portrait in Letters by Joyce Vinson (1974). Small art booklet. Nine pages, 4 ½ x 6 inches. Fine.
• Seven personal photographs measuring 3 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Fine.
• Single strip of four negatives captioned on bag “ALLEN POSES 9-69”. One folded, others Fine.
• Strip of seven negatives of personal photographs. Fine.
• Untitled ink and watercolor portrait of a figure in a building lobby. 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good to excellent.

New York Radical Feminists


The New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) was founded in 1969 by Shulamith Firestone, formerly of Redstockings, and Anne Koedt, formerly of The Feminists. NYRF’s primary philosophical viewpoint was that men intentionally maintained control over women as a method of preserving, strengthening, and satisfying their egos; acceptance of this view, published as “The Politics of the Ego,” was a condition for membership in the group.

Firestone and Koedt left NYRF in 1970, but the group stayed active, mainly holding monthly consciousness-raising meetings, publishing its newsletter, and sponsoring public events. They are perhaps best known for their 1971 Rape Conference, considered one of the earliest efforts by feminists to not only bring rape to public attention but also to frame it as a tool of patriarchal control.

See Carol Anne Douglas, “Woman Power: The Movement for Women’s Liberation,” Off Our Backs 16, no. 2 (February 1986): 26.

Newsletters. There are two different newsletters published by the NYRF: New York Radical Feminists Newsletter and NYRF Newsletter.
New York Radical Feminists Newsletter, 3 issues. This newsletter is generally between 8 and 15 pages on stapled 8 ½ x 11 sheets. Overall VG.
• January 1971 (no volume or issue number).
• 1971 – Vol. 1: no. 3 (February); no. 5 (August)

NYRF Newsletter, 21 issues. This newsletter is generally about 6 pages on stapled 8 ½ x 14 sheets. Overall VG.
• 1971 – Vol. 1: no. 1 (July); no. 3 (September); no. 4 (October); no. 5 (November); no. 6 (December)
• 1972 – Vol 2: no. 1 (January); no. 2 (February); no. 3 (March); no. 4 (April); no. 5 (June); no. 6 (July); no. 7 (August); no. 10 (October); no. 11 (November)
• 1973 – Vol 3: no. 1 (January); no. 2 (February); no. 3 (March)
• 1975 – Vol 5: no. 2 (February)
• 1976 – Vol. 6: no. 6 (June)
• One undated issue

NYRF Rape Conference Materials. In April 1971, the NYRF organized a “Rape Conference.” Held at Washington Irving High School, the conference was comprised of a forum with speakers including a policeman, psychologist, and sexual assault survivor; and a series of workshops on topics including self-defense, rape within marriage, and child sexual abuse. The conference earned a widely-reprinted writeup from the New York Times; mainly focused on the spectacle of self-defense karate performed by women—some of whom were “only 5 feet 2 inches and weigh[ed] hardly more than 100 pounds”—the article was printed in newspapers as distant as Guam.[1]

The conference was co-organized by Susan Brownmiller (1935–2025), who would go on to publish (1975). It is also notable for introducing Florence Rush’s theory of the “Freudian coverup” in her presentation on child sexual abuse; the theory argues that Sigmund Freud’s theory of repressed incestuous desires concealed the fact that many of his patients had been sexually abused as children.

The conference is considered the NYRF’s most notable action. Some materials such as the flyer are available online as scans; however, we find no copies of these materials on OCLC, nor any holdings of materials related to the conference, at the time of writing.

[1] Grace Lichtenstein, “It’s Self-Defense, Female Style,” republished in The Pacific Daily News, April 28, 1971, 8.

• RAPE CONFERENCE / FOR WOMEN ONLY. Flyer for the event. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Excellent.
• news release: / CONFERENCE ON RAPE CALLED BY / NEW YORK RADICAL FEMINISTS. A press release announcing the conference and giving a brief overview of its events. This release does not appear to have been published in mainstream newspapers. For release on or before April 3, 1971. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good to excellent.
• news release: / FEMINIST PSYCHIATRIST, COMMUNITY SOCIAL WORKER / TO OPEN MORNING FORUM OF CONFERENCE ON RAPE. A press release announcing two forum speakers, Dr. Phyllis Chesler of the Association for Women Psychiatrists and Ms. Florence Rush, a social worker at SUNY’s Cooperative College Center. The release also states that an aim of the workshop would be to “change women’s consciousness about rape and the cultural mores which condone and encourage rape.” This release also does not appear to have been published in the mainstream press. For release on or before April 14, 1971. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• AGENDA FOR / RAPE CONFERENCE. A schedule for the conference: forum meeting at 10:00 am, workshops 1:00 to 4:00 pm, and a general meeting from 4:00 to 6:00. Single-sided 8 ½ x 11 sheet. Very good plus.
• new york radical feminists / APRIL 17, 1971. A press kit for the conference, containing a series of short articles related to its various workshops: “Most Rapes Go Unreported” (New York Radical Feminists); “The Sexual Abuse of Children; A Feminist Point of View” (Florence Rush); “Child Molestation and Incest” (no author); “Psychology of the Rapist, His Victim, Fantasies” (no author); “Self-Defense” (no author); “Community Responsibility: Survival Now”, “Rape and Therapists”, and “Health and Medical Issues” (no author); and “Cultural Climate” (no author). Eleven pages stapled in a heavier paper cover, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Excellent to Near Fine.
• PRESS LIST -- ELECTRIC CIRCUS (CONT.). A stapled packet, presumably of news outlets to which the press releases and kit were sent. With some original manuscript and some photocopied manuscript notes. Eight pages, 8 ½ x 14 inches. Good.
• Manuscript calendar planner for April 1971. A handwritten April calendar with dates for preparing and releasing press kits, etc. Single-sided, 8 ½ x 11 inch graph paper. Good.

Flyers. Most flyers are undated; they are listed here in alphabetical order with dates provided where possible.
• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW YORK RADICAL FEMINISTS. Flyer, not the booklet of the same title, explaining the political philosophy of the group. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 14 inches. Folded with small tears; good.
• NYRF / FILM BENEFIT. [Likely 1970] Flyer for a film screening at the Elgin Theater, followed by a general meeting. Films include Woo Who? May Wilson (dir. Ann Lewis, [1970?]) and This is the Home of Mrs. Levant Graham (dir. Claudia Weill, 1970). Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. With damage, good.
• NYRF presents: / CABARET / A FEMINIST MIXER for FUND-RAISING and FUN-RAISING. Flyer advertising a fundraising event. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Slightly wrinkled with a stain; very good.
• RAPE / IS A POLITICAL CRIME AGAINST WOMEN / ULTRAJE / ES UN CRIMEN POLITICO EN CONTRA DE LA MUJER. Bilingual flyer advertising a speak-out on rape at St. Clements Episcopal Church. “Men, $2.00 (must be accompanied by a woman)”. Not in OCLC. Double-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches, double sided. Folded and slightly stained; very good.

Other materials. Mainly undated; presented in alphabetical order.
• An Introduction to the New York Radical Feminists (New York Radical Feminists, [1970s]). The booklet relating to the above flyer. Four copies on OCLC. Five stapled sheets, 8 ½ x 11 inches. very good minus.
• JULY 11th IS NEW YORK RADICAL FEMINIST SUNDAY. Event schedule for a Sunday picnic event in Central Park, with a consciousness-raising session and general meeting. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Top right corner torn off (not intersecting with text) and staple damage. Fair.
• Letter postmarked April 16, 1971. Abramowitz, Gilda; Bromberg, Marcia; Oak, Fabi; and Wilkenfeld, Zara. The letter opens, “To Feminists: We believe there is a need in the women’s liberation movement at this time to experiment with new forms of organization [...] We are interested in making a new radical feminist organization [...]”. It identifies the group responsible for the letter as “all people who have taken part, within the past year, in New York Radical Feminists” who have “seen the frailty of feminist ideals in the face of old habits of relating.” Three stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded with staple hole at top; very good plus.
• Mailed note from Ellen Dreher giving Rosemary Gaffney permission to publish Dreher’s cartoon, “The Little Prick,” in the April 1972 issue of NYRF Newsletter; March 1972.
• NEW YORK RADICAL FEMINISTS / West Village Brigades [...]. A members list organized into different neighborhood brigades. Contains full names, addresses, and phone numbers. Nine stapled 8 x ½ x 11 pages. Very good.
• Undated event schedule for a weekend workshop series sponsored by the NYRF. Workshop titles include “The Marriage That Fades Away”, “Monogamy” (workshops for both “Gay” and “Hetero”), “Black Women and Marriage,” and “The Lesbian in a Heterosexual Marriage.” The event also included a raffle, dance party, and NYRF general meeting. Single-sided, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded with some stains, very good minus.
• your NEWSLETTER needs your support. Flyer requesting financial support for the NYRF Newsletter, alongside suggestions such as removing book reviews: “It is patronizing, male-oriented, and a drag”. With manuscript note reading, “Our first anonymous letter! 12/7/71”. Single-sided, 8 x 8 ½ inches. Very good.

Women’s Strike for Equality


The Women’s Strike for Equality was a country-wide rally that took place on August 26, 1970, on the fiftieth anniversary of the certification of the Nineteenth Amendment. The rally, mainly concentrated in New York City, was sponsored by the National Organization for Women and led by feminist author Betty Friedan. Its three demands were free abortion, equal opportunity in the workplace, and free childcare. In New York City, it drew an estimated ten to twenty thousand attendees, with smaller actions in cities including Boston, San Francisco, and Detroit. Though the strike—and especially its impacts on the second-wave feminist movement—is well-documented, we do not find these pieces on OCLC. Presented in alphabetical order.
• AUG 26 / WOMEN’S STRIKE / FOR EQUALITY (Women’s Coalition Strike Headquarters, N.d.). A flyer advertising the event with a short survey about women’s issues. It advises that “You do not have to be a militant feminist or ‘women’s liberationist’ or a man-hater or a bra-burner.” Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 14 inches. Very good.
• AUG 26 / WOMEN’S STRIKE / FOR EQUALITY (Women’s Coalition Strike Headquarters, July 29, 1970). A short pamphlet concerning countrywide actions relating to the strike. Five pages stapled, 8 ½ x 14 inches. Folded with some wear; excellent.
• AUGUST 26 / WOMEN MARCH FOR EQUALITY 1971 (Women March for Equality 1971, N.d.). A flyer apparently for a follow-up event to the 1970 strike. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Good.
• FREE 24-HOUR CHILDCARE CENTERS -- COMMUNITY CONTROLLED. A sheet with information about the march and one of its demands. Single-sided 8 ½ x 11 sheet. Good.
• IS IT REALLY ALL YOUR FAULT? [three versions].

  1. A flyer for the strike containing a poem, “Is It Really All Your Fault?” The poem reads, in part, “Waiters don’t see you / and your opinions don’t count / -- your job is worth less when you do it [...]”. Single-sided sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Good minus.

  2. A typed copy of the poem. Two stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
  3. A manuscript draft of the poem. Three pages on 8 ½ x 11 inch notebook paper. Very good.


• List of Strike Committee and Sponsors Coalition members. On August 26th Women’s Strike for Equality letterhead. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• “Open Letter / Why Did We Walk Out Of The Coalition and Why We Are Staying Out” (Joyce Vinson, Rosemary Gaffney, and Lynne Shapiro, N.d.). A letter detailing the authors’ concerns with the organization, mainly its focus on party politics. Vinson and Gaffney are listed as members of NYRF and the Coalition Interim Planning Committee. Double-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• “Position Paper” (Jill E. Ward and Deborah Biele). A short paper on the views of the coalition. Ward is listed as a member of the Coalition Interim Planning Committee and the Aug 26 Strike Steering Committee; Biele of NY NOW and the Coalition Interim Planning Committee. Three stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• SPONSORS, NATIONAL WOMEN’S STRIKE COALITION FOR EQUALITY. A list of the event’s sponsors. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• WOMEN’S STRIKE / DEMONSTRATION / AUGUST 26. A flyer advertising the demonstration. Below the demands of free abortion, childcare, and equal job and educational opportunities, manuscript pencil reads “EQUAL HUMANITY”. A second copy of the flyer contains manuscript “Griffiths Amendment March 25th”, “EQUAL CIVIL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN”, and a phone number. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Excellent.
• 14 strips of photographic negatives appearing to show an event at the strike or possibly a planning event.

National Organization for Women (NOW)


The National Organization for Women, a sponsor of the Women’s Strike, was formed in 1966 in Washington, D.C., and is still active. The group had twenty-eight founders, including Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, and Aileen Hernandez. Its focus was initially on enforcement of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; the founders felt that despite Title VII protections, employers were still discriminating against women. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, NOW experienced an internal conflict over the inclusion of lesbians, with pushback particularly from Betty Friedan, who coined the now-popular term "lavender menace” to refer to lesbian activism. Following this conflict, NOW resolved to include protections for lesbians in their activism. It also expanded its focus to include passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights. Items presented in alphabetical order.
• GUIDELINES FOR CR GROUPS (NOW NYC Chapter, N.d.). A guide on leading consciousness-raising discussion groups, suggesting that they have a topic of the evening. Stapled to a copy of “Children of the Corporate Dream: An Analysis of Day Care as a Political Issue Under Capitalism” by Katherine Ellis and Rosalind Petchesky. Not in OCLC. Six stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• Mailer including three flyers:

  1. Benefit for St. Mark’s Women’s Clinic (N.d.). A schedule for weekly events at the clinic with the theme “Women’s Art + Politics”. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded, else Near Fine.

  2. The Greatest ERA Walk (1982). A fundraising event sponsored by NOW. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded, else Near Fine.

  3. The Voice of Bronx Now (September 1981). A short newsletter. Not in OCLC. Single-sided 8 ½ x 11 sheet. Folded, else Near Fine.


• The NOW York Woman, Vol. III, no. 7, August 1975. Commonly held in microfilm; uncommon in physical format. Six pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• now…and then (NOW, March 1971). A short publication of NOW. Not in OCLC. Thirteen stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.

The Women’s Liberation Center


The Women’s Liberation Center was opened in the early 1970s as a meeting space for women’s groups in the city, especially for lesbian advocacy groups. In 2019, its location on W 20th St was designated a New York City Landmark.
• Calendar for May–June events, no year. Single 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet. Very good.
• DEFEND THE RIGHT TO LEARN / A Conference on Women’s Education. A flyer for a conference at Washington Irving High School. No year. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Good minus.
• GENERAL ASSEMBLY REPORT (May 1970). A report with information about the Literature Collective and Herstory group meeting. Not in OCLC. Double-sided 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet. Very good.
• LITERATURE AVAILABLE AT THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION CENTER OF NEW YORK. A list of their holdings. Not on OCLC. Four stapled sheets, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• Mailer from 1970. Mailer in preparation for the Women’s Strike for Equality, with the Center’s August calendar and information about an action called “LIBERATE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY!” Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• Mailer from May 1971. Contains information about a forum on prostitution and the opening of the Women’s Liberation Center’s Feminist School. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• VIDEO COLLECTIVE [...]. An undated sheet providing a list of organizations, including the Video Collective, Self Help Clinic Collective, Rape Workshop, and Marxist/Feminist Study Group. Not in OCLC. Double-sided 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet. Good.
• WEST SIDE / Women’s Center / 82nd Street Festival. Flyer for a festival advertising crafts, literature, posters balloons, a self-help clinic and anti-rape squad. Not in OCLC. Single 11 x 16 ½ inch flyer. Folded with wrinkling; very good minus.
• WEST SIDE WOMEN’S CENTER SUMMER STREET FESTIVAL. A sheet providing a list of activities planned for the festival, including a rummage sale, crafts sale, self-defense demonstration, and children’s activities. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• WOMEN’S SKILLS AND SERVICES (The Women’s Center, 1971). A list of women-owned businesses in New York City. Not in OCLC. Double-sided 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet. Very good.

Mother Courage Restaurant


The Mother Courage restaurant was opened by Dolores Alexander and Jill Ward in 1972, after Ward had left her job and Alexander had left NOW due to anti-lesbian sentiment. As women, the pair could not obtain a bank loan, and financed the restaurant’s opening with loans from family, friends, and fellow women’s libbers. The restaurant was owned and operated entirely by women; according to the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project, Mother Courage was “the first feminist restaurant in the United States.” Its clientele included Audre Lorde, Jean O’Leary, and Maxine Feldman, and it was a meeting place for a number of radical feminist organizations in New York City. It closed in 1977.
• Manuscript note. On a photocopy of a review of Judy Collins’ album True Stories and Other Dreams by Lynne D. Shapiro: “I was at the restaurant last night – Jill was cooking and waitressing. They’ll have it together tonight. Nothing much is new since Friday [...] Love Lynne”.
• Mother Courage … a restaurant for feminists & their friends. An undated menu. The cover shows the location of the restaurant, marked with a venus symbol. Some prices are handwritten. Not in OCLC. Four pages, 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Toned and with stains throughout. Fair.
• Mother Courage t-shirt. Children’s size large. Excellent.
• Resumes belonging to Mother Courage staff Rosemary Gaffney

  1. A 1977 resume reads, “I started with Mother Courage as a prep person cum salad chef cum dishwasher, and was trained to cook in 1972.” Two stapled sheets, 8 ½ x 11 inches.

  2. A later resume reads: “When Mother Courage Restaurant was just an old empty store on West Eleventh Street, I became immediately involved in it by walking through the door and falling through the floor. After I helped the women who owned it lay a new floor and scrape the plaster off the walls, I began working there.” Six stapled sheets, 8 ½ x 11 inches.



Other Events and Organizations: Flyers, Promotional Material, and Programs


Sagaris. An experimental feminist summer school held in Lyndonville, Vermont in the 1970s.
• Ti-Grace Atkinson Letty Cotton Pogrebin / Rita Mae Brown Adrienne Rich [...] invite you to attend a fund-raising party for SAGARIS / an independent feminist institute. Flyer for a fundraising event at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, likely from 1974. Not in OCLC. Single-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded with small stain; excellent.
• SAGARIS, FIRST FEMINIST INSTITUTE, TO OPEN JUNE, 1975. A press release from November 1974. Not in OCLC. Three stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded and toned with slight stains; very good plus.

• The Extension Program at the Woman’s Building (Women’s Community Inc., 1976). A program for the July 6 – August 14, 1976, course and workshop series. Programs for three other sessions, but not this one, are listed on OCLC. Twenty-two pages, 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Wraps with some folds and wrinkling, very good; contents excellent.
• QUESTIONAIRE [sic] / FEMINIST ANALYSIS / OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT (1974). A questionnaire likely from the Feminists on Feminism Project, not filled out. Not in OCLC. Eight pages, 7 x 8 ½ inches. Very good.
• WANT TO RENT A FEMINIST? Press release from the New Feminist Talent Collective. Not in OCLC. Single sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good minus.
• Women’s One World Festival entry pass (1981). Performer pass to the festival. 3 x 4 inches. Good.
• WOMEN’S WEEKEND ‘75. A program for the February–March 1975 event at the Stony Brook Women’s Center. The event included a workshop with Andrea Dworkin, among others; food, music, and dance; and career counseling. Workshops include “Lesbianism” and “How to Start Your Own Business”. Not in OCLC. Thirteen stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Toned with a few stains and some unrelated manuscript markings; very good.
• WORKSHOP - CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING ON PROSTITUTION. From an unknown event, a writeup describing a consciousness-raising workshop on prostitution. With some editorial marks. Three stapled 8 ½ x 11 inch pages.

Other Publications


Publications with multiple volumes in the collection:
Amherst Women’s Liberation and Valley Women’s Center. Two women’s organizations in Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley.
• JANUARY NEWSLETTER – AWL-VWC, January 1972.
• [April 1972 newsletter – missing first three pages]
Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Formed in San Francisco in 1955, DOB was the first lesbian rights organization in the US.
• The Lesbian Newsletter, June 1971 issue (DOB New York, 1971). This edition centers the surprise resignation of DOB president Ruth Simpson, and the immediate subsequent resignations of the vice president, treasurer, newsletter editor, and newsletter production manager. Not in OCLC. Six pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Folded, somewhat stained and toned; very good.
• The Ladder. Reprint of September 1959 and September 1960 (DOB, 1960). “DOB questionnaire reveals some facts about lesbians and some comparisons between male & female homosexuals." Nine copies in OCLC. 45 pp. Wraps with toning and wear, very good plus; contents very good plus.
Majority Report: The Women’s Newspaper.
• Vol. 1: no. 3 (June 1971); no. 6 (November 1971). Published by FOCAS. Very good plus.
No More Fun And Games: A Journal of Female Liberation.
• February 1969, Issue #2. Published in Cambridge, MA. 128pp, 6 x 9 inches, in paper wraps. Cover with toning and wear to edges; contents Near Fine. Overall excellent.
• November 1969, Issue #3. Published in Somerville, MA. 116pp, 6 x 9 inches, in paper wraps. Cover with toning and wear, very good minus; contents very good. Overall very good.
• OCLC lists thirteen holdings of No More Fun and Games.
Past-Time Feminist Book Center Inc. A set of articles reprinted by KNOW, Inc., for the Spokane bookstore.
• “Homogenizing the American Woman: The Power of an Unconscious Ideology” by Sandra L. Bem and Daryl J. Bem.
• “Lesbianism & Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions?” by Robin Morgan.
• photocopy of the Jan 22, 1868 copy of The Revolution newspaper, Vol I no 3
• “Sexism on Sesame Street: Outdated Concepts in a ‘Progressive’ Program” by Carolyn Cathey-Calvert.
The Spokeswoman. An independent monthly newsletter of women’s news.
• Vol. 2: no. 7 (January 1972); no. 8 (February 1972)
• Vol. 3: no. 4 (October 1972); no. 6 (December 1972)
• Published by The Spokeswoman, Chicago, IL. Each approximately eight pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches.
“Women’s Liberation” folder. A collection of readings, likely from an event. Nicely reprinted copies of articles.
• “A ‘Straight’ Job” by anonymous
• “Bread and Roses” by Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood
• “Freedom is a Long Time Comin’” by Virginia Blaisdell
• “Sisterhood and the Small Group” by Ronnie Lichtman
• “The Great Toy Shuck” by Karen Kearns
• “The Politics of Housework” by Pat Mainardi
• “Up from Radicalism: A Feminist Journal” by Ellen Willis
• “Whatever Happened to Women? Nothing – That’s The Trouble” by Ellen Willis
• “Women and Health Care”, no author
WBAI-FM’s Consciousness Raising. A show produced by pioneering feminist radio broadcaster Nanette Rainone for the radical independent New York City radio station WBAI-FM in 1970.
• Transcript of the 1972 episode “Men and Violence” with many editorial marks. With a manuscript note from Rainone: “Enclosed is the corrected copy of Men + Violence and the original. Also, the Elaine Showalter speech you’re supposed to transcribe. I’ll call you Wed. evening. Thanks - Nanette”. Twenty-four pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good plus.
• “WBAI CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING / MEN AND VIOLENCE”. Copy of the transcript with a manuscript note “COPY OF DRAFT SENT TO A. KOEDT / 7-8-81”. With a copy of a letter from Rosemary Gaffney to Koedt about the transcript. Koedt was a founding member of NYRF and author of “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” (1970). Eighteen pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches.
Single volumes:
• Albatross. The Radical Lesbian Feminist Satire Mag! (The Albatross Collective, 1976). Thirty-one pages in paper wraps, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Toned and somewhat stained; very good.
• Army Dependents Speak: Women and the Military (Camp McCoy Three Defense Committee, N.d.). Five on OCLC. Twenty-five page stapled booklet in paper wraps, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good minus.
• Cape Cod Women’s Liberation News Letter, Vol. 2 no. 1 (March 1973). Twenty-two pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good plus. Commonly held as a digital file or microform; physical holdings are uncommon. Northwestern and Harvard Universities hold Vol. 2, nos. 2 and 3 in physical format.
• Country Women. Issue #20: Food (Country Women, 1977). Sixty-four pages in paper wraps. 8 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Excellent.
• Dyke, Vol. I, no. 1, Winter 1975–1976 (Tomato Publications, 1975) Commonly available in microfilm; few to no physical holdings. 79 page magazine. Wraps very good to excellent; contents excellent.
• Lesbian Connection. Vol. II Issue 3 (Ambitious Amazons, 1976). Twenty-six pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Excellent.
• Off Our Backs, Vol. 2, no. 4, December 1971. Twenty-eight page newspaper, 11 ½ x 16 inches. Good.
• New Jersey Catholic Conference pamphlet against abortion. Double-sided sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Poor to fair.
• past & present / WOMEN AT WORK / in song and narrative (Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1973). 1974 calendar featuring Black women’s history, especially in the American South. One holding at the University of Houston. 8 ¼ x 10 ½ inch calendar. Fine.
• “Self Help” by Dorothy Tennov [draft]. A draft copy of a chapter with photocopied manuscript notes. Six stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good.
• Sojourner: A Newsletter By and For Colorado Springs Women, Vol. IV, no. 6, June 1976. Harvard University and Colorado College hold a few other issues of Sojourner. Six stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Some stains and manuscript markings; very good.
• The Lesbian Feminist. February ‘77 Issue (Lesbian Feminist Liberation, 1977). One microfilm holding on OCLC, at Freie Universität Berlin. No physical holdings. Sixteen pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Toned at edges; excellent.
• The Liberation of Women by Alo Devi (N.p., N.d.). Not in OCLC. Seventeen page booklet, 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Excellent to Near Fine.
• “The Myth of Sexual Delinquency” by Florence Rush. Presented at A Woman’s Conference on Prostitution, December 1971. This copy is likely from the event. Fourteen pages with cover sheet, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Very good to excellent.
• The Woman’s Movement: Forum on the Future (Foundation for Matriarchy, 1978). One copy on OCLC, at Harvard University. Thirty-one page booklet, 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Wraps with folds and wrinkling, some small stains, very good minus; contents very good.
• THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE U.S.: A NEW VIEW [untitled newsletter]. Not in OCLC. Twenty-eight stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Excellent.
• Woman’s World, Vol. 1, no. 3, November–December 1971. Widely available in microfilm and e-Newspaper formats but apparently scarce physically. Ten pages, 11 ½ x 16 inches. Folded, else Near Fine.
• WOMEN: A Berkshire Feminist News Journal Vol. 5, no. 3, August–September 1976. Available as microfilm; physical holding at SUNY Albany. Thirty-six stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Some stains and damage to edges; very good.
• Women in Society, or, Woman’s Place is in the Home, by Marcella Womack (N.p., N.d.). Eight in OCLC. Six stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Good.
• Women’s Heritage Calendar and Almanac, July 1970–June 1971 (Graphic Communications Consultants, 1970). Ten listed in OCLC. 8 ½ x 11 inch calendar. Excellent.
• Women’s LibeRATion, Issue 23, June 14–July 10, 1971. Seven listed on OCLC, with at least two of those microfilm only. Twenty-eight page newspaper measuring 11 x 16 inches. Folded at middle with damage to edges; very good.
• WOMEN’S LIBERATION NEWSLETTER, November 1, 1971. Newsletter from Windsor, Ontario. Not in OCLC. Thirteen stapled pages, 8 ½ x 11 inches. With manuscript marks. Good plus.
• Write On, Woman! A Writer’s Guide to U.S. Women’s/Feminist/Lesbian Alternate Press Periodicals, ed. Lynne D. Shapiro (1977 edition). Inscribed “To my good friend Rosemary / Love Lynn”. Not in OCLC. Thirty-two pages in paper wraps. Wraps toned, very good plus; contents very good plus.

Provenance: These materials come from the New York State sale of Rosemary Gaffney’s estate.

Price: $12,500.00

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